Not to mention the many deals with hardware manufacturers in order to avoid competing OSs to have any chance. They managed to kill BeOS and dominate the Japanese market in the 90s
Isn't that exactly what's happening as soon as you install win11?
Instagram competitor? Isn't TikTok itself the competitor to Instagram that made the latter become another stupid shit that's all about short videos? Was notes old Instagram?
Slaves. To them, women are slaves, objects that are owned and can be bartered for other things. When you look at it like that, it makes a lot of sense
Meta profits from these accounts, it also profits off scams and fraud posts, because they pay for ad space. They have literally no incentive to moderate beyond the bare minimum their automatic tools do
Same. Can't leave it because of communication with family and work. It sucks that it is the de facto messaging app of so many countries
Very true, but I suspect most people would rather double down on their beliefs, much like this comic:
I suppose this is the more common outcome as they will have a considerable pool of friends/family/colleagues that can reinforce their faith and are likely to also feel personally offended
why do people react so strongly when a book dares to reinterpret sacred ideas?
For a lot of people, their religion is part of them, so to make fun of it is to make fun of them.
For others, mainly the leaders, it's an affront to their power. "How dare someone make fun of the tools I use to control people"?
Open Veins of Latin America. Finished reading it today. It's a 1973 book that explains some of the reasons for the massive underdevelopment of Latin American colonies. The general gist can be summed up as "it is a place full of riches, and the colonizers only want to extract everything and send it back to their masters" - that still applied to the industrialization efforts funded by foreign capital.
Although Spain and Portugal were the nominal masters, they, too, were fucking themselves over with debts to Dutch and English bankers back in 16th and 17th centuries, not to mention bad trade deals, effectively killing their own industries and those of their colonies.
EDIT: Galeano also exposed a lot of the shady deals made mainly by USA companies with governments in order to "develop" the southern countries, like ensuring that they'd get less taxes, better exchange prices and better credit options, that their goods would only be shipped by USA owned ships, etc. Not to mention that, during 1950-1970, the price of the commodities sold by Latin American countries kept falling (probably growing below inflation) and the income from the exports kept getting lower, despite larger volumes.
I can imagine it in a situation where we effectively go back to the stone age, with little to no trade between the small (<50) communities
Why haven't they tried a bridge? Fucking amateurs
The majority of jobs simply don't allow any sort of WFH: if it involves creating or transforming something, people have to be physically manning the tools. Healthcare can't be WFH, education sucks when it's fully online.
Smaller communities are great for peace and quiet, but terrible when you need anything they don't have (or don't have in decent quality), like jobs, transportation, healthcare and education. If you happen to be "socially weird", you have to adapt and "unweird" yourself
Hopefully game reviewers will heighten their expectations to meet these inflated prices.
I find it more likely Nintendo will DMCA them for daring to speak about their games
The right thing for meta to do is to implode and cause a complete crash on the stock exchange as it is erased from history.
Start anything that idiots would call "communism" and the CIA will send a coup to your country in 1 week or your money back, guarantee!
Pics https://ibb.co/album/sbjqwT (the weird triangle on the lower piece was fixed afterwards)
I've been messing around with a press mold so I can make hex tiles using paper mache, or something else that is easily and cheaply available.
The problem I've been having is with the sides, which rarely get properly pressed. What should I do to possibly fix this, regarding the model?
Right now, I've only experimented with minced paper and water, which led to satisfying results. What other things could I add or try for this kind of press? What could I apply on the mold to make the paper less likely to stick? Vaseline doesn't make a difference.
We don't have an Ask Historians yet, so I think this is the best place to ask at the moment
I've been thinking of self hosting a mastodon (gotosocial, more specifically) + a matrix server on an old computer I have, but sometimes I might need to turn it off for 2 days or more (not to mention some energy or internet outages that might happen here)
I suppose with the mastodon part the server will properly sync and download whatever's been missing, but I'm not entirely sure that'll be the case with matrix. If anyone sent me a DM on there while my server was down, would it get through after it was back up?
PL continua com seu golpismo e sua defesa descarada de mentiras, falsidades e spam em conluio com as grandes empresas de informática pra garantir poder e dominação da população.
Sempre usam essa ladainha de "liberdade de expressão" pra defenderem o uso de bots e outras táticas do gabinete do ódio, dizem ser a favor de "liberdade total de expressão", mas adoraria ver eles tentando defender isso com alguém perguntando "Então os senhores são a favor de postagens pró pedofilia? Pró aborto? São a favor de golpes cibernéticos?"
For instance, when your team misses a super close shot at scoring, or when you lose a super tense game match by a hair.
I'm trying out a few seeds myself to see what I end up getting. My current favorite, dees1, spawns fucktons of relaxaurus in the starting area, ragnahawks, bushis and celesdirs in the areas of the Petalia and Elizabee bosses, faleris aqua and orserks in the wetlands of Grintale boss, among other interesting spawns.
What are some seeds you folks tried?
>> funny part about "Kamala campaign can't target men" is that they can't target men because they refuse to employ the crass humor needed to effectively target the kind of men they currently fail to target. They know what they have to do, they simply aren't strong enough to do it.
>> They lost because they won't say slurs. People are not ready for this conversation.
> Hadn't thought of this before, but it makes sense. Men just won't take you seriously if you're offended by or scared of words.
Straight from one of the shittier parts of the fediverse.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/147299/pocket-imperium
The game is a very simple and all about territory control. A common complaint is exactly that it's too simple. Does anyone know about custom rules or things that can give more variety to the game, without necessarily making it too complex?
The best way to understand is looking at it like a game
People that want to inform others need to explain stuff, sometimes more thoroughly than reasonably needed, which takes, say, 50 energy per answer. They also need people to understand what's being informed, this is their "win condition"
Bullshitters just need to spam shit, never need to check sources, never need to be truthful and will use all sorts of logical fallacies when confronted. It takes 1 energy to start, 1 energy to spread AND they can convince others to spread it further for them. They don't want to inform, they want to get an immediate reaction, which is often of anger towards a "culprit". Their win condition is reach + emotional reaction.
Even worse, bullshitters will hypocritically pile up on anyone that they judge to not be playing "by the rules", since they have complete disregard for rules that don't benefit them.
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/23573084
> The site also has pages for keeping track of what has been delisted from specific vendors, such as Steam, Epic or GOG for PC
The site also has pages for keeping track of what has been delisted from specific vendors, such as Steam, Epic or GOG for PC
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